Quotes About Collaboration

Where are all the reasonable people?" and realized the answer was that many reasonable people don't contact support.

Look for smart ways around a problem or faster ways to resolve them. Make effective use of the people around you instead of assuming you have to do everything yourself.

It's a shockingly recent notion that work and play should be mutually exclusive things. We learn about ourselves and each other through play, which helps us work together.

meetings can be used to stay ahead, flagging issues before they become blockers.

Avoid letting anyone in your sphere of influence flail or panic. Stay calm, help others to stay calm, and work together

The absence of dedicated quality assurance people made every employee accountable for quality, which is rare if there are many QA people around.

I'd take a great team with bad methods over a lousy team with great methods any day.

remote work, and many other perks [..], will work or fail because of the company culture, not because of the perk itself.

It's easier to get feedback and make adjustments with how a team works if you're in the same room. Feedback is hard to come by in life at all.

diverse teams make better mousetraps.

For each individual among the many has a share of excellence and practical wisdom, and when they meet together, just as they become in a manner one man, who has many feet, and hands, and senses, so too with regard to their character and thought. Hence the many are better judges than a single man of music and poetry, for some understand one part, and some another, and among them they understand the whole. (Aristotle, Politics, book 3, chapter 11)

Progress depends as much on our collective differences as it does on our individual IQ scores.

creates synergies. It allows the whole to be more than the parts. And diversity between communities provides robustness to major changes.

Adopting tricks of the trade from colleagues is done everywhere else in research-why not in writing?

Formal talks are the special opportunity we give ourselves to discuss our private work in a public voice, to make the labor of our minds and hearts communal.

Oh, just let it out. I don't care how it looks; it'll be hidden in the back of my cloak anyway. We can pretty it up later." "We?" Jean snorted as he loosened the doublet with a few strategic rips and slashes. "Me, more like. You mend clothes like dogs write poetry.

In comics at its best, words and pictures are like partners in a dancer and each one takes turns leading.

The big challenge is, we have to constrain and mold our ambition level without losing the spark. The stuff I lose sleep over nigh is, how are we doing on this? We want to make progress as fast as possible without exploiting human resources. How do you move faster without killing people? How do you build a community around the project without losing design integrity? And how do we get on an arc that moves from benign dictatorship to more small-group democracy?

Collaborating with someone in your field or with your education background is sometimes good but highly incestuous. Seek advice from those with different opinions, professions, backgrounds, and biases.

Groups with diverse backgrounds and skills are usually far superior to any single expert in evaluating solutions. Each person's strengths, weaknesses, and biases average out into opinions that are surprisingly accurate.

None of us is as smart as all of us." – KEN BLANCHARD

To make matters worse, our customers don't have a very good understanding of what we do, how we do it, or why we do it—the end result is that they put unrealistic demands on us and don't give us the support that we need to accomplish their goals.

There's a beauty in being part of a band, when there's equality and trust.

In my proudest moments, I think I had a real hand in the creative force of making 'Star Trek.' But most of the time, I don't think about it.